Radar Inspection of Concrete
Scanning a floor at the Portland Jetport with concrete scanning radar.
 

Radar-based concrete inspection is the state of the art in locating technology, and provides the accurate inspection results that you need when dealing with structures within concrete.

Our concrete imaging system locates embedded structures within concrete slabs prior to drilling, cutting or coring, to a depth of 24 inches or more. A 32" x 32" area of concrete can be inspected and its contents marked in just five minutes. Only single-sided access is required to perform surveys, and thousands of square feet can be inspected in one day. Faster, safer, and less expensive than traditional X-ray radiography, radar imaging is the best method available for determining what objects lie inside concrete slabs – and exactly where they are.

In a nutshell, our concrete imaging service provides:

A typical rebar strcture, before concrete is poured over it.With this system, we are literally looking through a concrete slab, and we can tell inch-by-inch what's inside. With a typical rebar structure like this in a slab, the accurate data we provide saves time and money: it prolongs drill and coring bit life by avoiding cutting through the steel rebar, and it prevents hitting embedded utilities in the slab.

Some scan examples:

Concrete Radar scan image
The two red lines in the center of this scan are electrical conduits.

Concrete Radar scan image
The large red area shown here is an electrical junction box.

Concrete Radar scan image
Here we can see the outline of a light fixture attached to the far side of this parking garage floor.

Concrete Radar scan image
And here is our scan of a floor in the Portland Jetport, with both the obstructions and the safe coring area marked.

Dig Smart of Maine · Private Utility Locating & Concrete Scanning
114 Sawyer Road · Scarborough, Maine 04074
Phone 207-749-7231 · Fax 207-883-7936
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